Barnes & Noble Announces Digital Editions of Leading College and
University Newspapers Now Available on NOOK®

Through an Exclusive Partnership with Content Provider UWIRE, NOOK
Newsstand™ to Distribute Digital Editions of
Hundreds of College and University Newspapers, Including Harvard,
Columbia, Louisiana State University, Northwestern University,
University of Michigan, Plus Many More

September 03, 2013 08:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NOOK Media LLC, a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS),
the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products,
announced today that it will bring newspapers from leading colleges and
universities from across the U.S. to its expansive NOOK Newsstand
offering through a newly announced content licensing partnership with
distribution service UWIRE. The digital editions of hundreds of college
and university newspapers will now be available across all NOOK devices
and through the Free NOOK Reading Apps™. Major
newspapers from leading colleges like Harvard, Columbia, Louisiana State
University, Northwestern University, University of Michigan and
University of Texas at Austin, can now be purchased for as little as
$0.99 cents per month. For more information, customers can visit www.nook.com/collegenewspapers.

“Through NOOK’s exclusive partnership with UWIRE, we are providing a new
and convenient way to stay connected with your favorite college or
university,” said Jonathan Shar, Vice President & General Manager,
Emerging Content, NOOK Media LLC. “NOOK is now the only place that
provides easy access to over 500 digital editions of college and
university newspapers, delivering them to students, alumni, faculty, and
sports fans, across all NOOK devices and NOOK reading apps.”

College and university newspapers will be delivered to NOOK customers
and will feature an intuitive design that makes it even easier and more
fun to read newspapers digitally. Subscribers to these newspapers will
have new issues automatically delivered to their NOOK Libraries™ as
soon as they are available to read across all NOOK devices and Free NOOK
Reading Apps. In addition, NOOK Newsstand already features the largest
digital collection of the top 100 bestselling magazines available for
both digital subscriptions and single copy sale in the U.S., plus a
large selection of leading daily and weekly newspapers, all available to
try free for 14 days.

The addition of college and university newspapers to NOOK highlights
Barnes & Noble’s ongoing commitment to serve students with the latest
innovations in learning along with access to the best in educational
content. At the nearly 700 Barnes & Noble College campus stores
nationwide, an expansive network of 4.6 million students are provided
with an unrivaled selection of learning resources, including the NOOK
line of eReaders and tablets. With these award-winning devices now
featuring hundreds of newspapers from leading colleges and universities,
Barnes & Noble College is continuing its mission to strengthen student
and alumni connections.

For more information on NOOK, customers can visit www.nook.com
or visit the NOOK Digital Shops™ and displays in any of
Barnes & Noble’s nearly 700 bookstores and Barnes & Noble College campus
stores nationwide. Barnes & Noble offers Always Free NOOK Support in all
of its neighborhood bookstores, with more than 35,000 NOOKSellers™
across the country ready to assist customers with setting up and getting
the most out of their NOOK devices.

About Barnes & Noble, Inc.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS) is a Fortune 500 company and the leading
retailer of content, digital media and educational products. The company
operates 674 Barnes & Noble bookstores in 50 states, and one of the
Web’s largest e-commerce sites, BN.com (www.bn.com).
Its NOOK Media LLC subsidiary is a leader in the emerging digital
reading and digital education markets. The NOOK digital business offers
award-winning NOOK® products and an expansive collection of digital
reading and entertainment content through the NOOK Store™ (www.nook.com),
while Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC operates 692 bookstores
serving over 4.6 million students and faculty members at colleges and
universities across the United States. Barnes & Noble is proud to be
named a J.D. Power and Associates 2012 Customer Service Champion and is
only one of 50 U.S. companies so named. Barnes & Noble.com is ranked the
number one online retailer in customer satisfaction in the book, music
and video category and a Top 10 online retailer overall in customer
satisfaction according to ForeSee E-Retail Satisfaction Index (Spring
Top 100 Edition).

General information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the
Internet by visiting the company's corporate website: www.barnesandnobleinc.com.

NOOK®, NOOK Store®, NOOK Video™, and
NOOK Video Apps™ are trademarks of Barnes & Noble, Inc. Other
trademarks referenced in this release are the property of their
respective owners.

NOOK reading and entertainment products make it easy to Read What You
Love, Anywhere You Like™ with a fun, easy-to-use and
immersive digital reading experience. With NOOK, customers gain access
to the expansive NOOK Store® of more than 3 million (US) and
2.5 million (UK) digital books, plus periodicals, comics, apps, movies
and TV shows, and the ability to enjoy content across a wide array of
popular devices through Free NOOK Reading Apps™ and NOOK
Video Apps™, available at www.nook.com/freenookapps.
NOOK owners receive Always Free NOOK Support in any of Barnes & Noble’s
nearly 700 bookstores. Find NOOK devices in Barnes & Noble stores and
online at www.nook.com,
as well as leading retailers including Best Buy, Walmart, Target and
many others. NOOK products are available in the United Kingdom through www.nook.co.uk
and leading retailers.